After much thought and consideration, we have finally joined Southview Country Club!  We have managed to play our first round.  I wish I had played better, but I can not really complain for the first round of the year.  On April 3 no less!

I recently recieved my new Lenovo Thinkpad W510 and despite liking many things about the laptop I am growing more and more frustrated with the blue screen of death issue relating to the GOBI 2000 wireless card when used with an AT&T sim card.  The behavior is installing an AT&T sim card causes a bluescreen.  Without the card everything functions just fine.  You can boot and operate with a blue screen with the SIM installed if Access Connections are installed; that poses a few problems though.  First, I like Access Connections, second, how do you use the 3g card then!

Some reports are blaming it on a wireless adapter problem.  Yet others say downgra... [More]

After our first visit to Southview Country Club it became very clear from our meeting with Mark that we really needed to consider joining.  Mark and staff were very helpful in providing information about the club and in getting us very excited about joining.  The only thing left to determine is if we would enjoy it while it was open.  Mark was generous enough to invite us out for Friday night's happy hour and for dinner which we took him up on this past Friday.  On our way there we were not sure what to expect, what type of people we would encounter and if we would enjoy ourselves. 

Upon arriving Mark took a second... [More]

This afternoon my wife and I took an up close look at the offering of Southview Country Club in West St. Paul, MN.  We have been seeking a course to call ours and it has not been an easy process.  We are fortunate that despite Minnesota having a golf "season" instead of year round golf to have many fine golf courses in our area.  As we began our search it became very clear to us that not all courses are equal (private or public) and that not all courses are welcoming.

Initially we began evaluating all courses; however, it quickly became evident that most public courses simply do not offer enough value relative to their price... [More]

I have moved my blog over to Blogengine from Wordpress.  All in all, I am happy with the move.  The process to get Blogengine setup was fairly simple; however, some of the necessary database privelages were not documented, but not that big of a problem.  It is important to note that I am not unhappy with with wordpress.  It was a good application and I will miss it.  I wanted to switch over to ASP and IIS7 (I know...why?).

Blogengine does not have all the features and enhancements of the more mature Wordpress, but it has everything I require.  The functionality is g... [More]

Today I realized there is nothing more annoying than phone numbers in email signatures that do not properly select / dial from smart phones / blackberries / etc.

People need to lose the parenthesis when putting there phone number in the signature!

(555) 555-1324 when clicked on with a blackberry or otherwise will only dial 555-1234

If the number was displayed as 555-555-1234 or 555.555.1234 there would not be a problem.

Why can't people give up on the parenthesis?

Also on this note, don't include an image in your signature. Some of us do not like seeing an attachment on every email. Just type in the company name!

Greetings. Over the last couple days I have been in the process of overhauling the site. First big change is the new name. Welcome to Rendition17. With the new name comes the new address: www.rendition17.com.

Overall you will find the same content and a few new things. Three days ago I have started adding a photo per day. Unless otherwise noted, these are all photos taken by me.

With the new name comes a new theme. Though similar to the last one I tried, I like this one a bit more and it has less work to make it fully functional across browsers. The theme provided by: [More]